August 21st was super early for us to return to Greece as it was still hot and very much a part of the school holidays, so crowded. However we succumbed to a request from Faye, Guy and the girls to spend some time aboard Déjà Vu and this meant, of course, the last week of the school holidays!
We had been advised of a neat package holiday deal and Faye successfully booked a package that included flights to Preveza, transfers to a hotel in Nidri and an air conditioned apartment for one week. At the same time I booked us onto a pontoon barely 300m from the hotel, for the same week, where we could come and go and enjoy power and water on tap.
With all options covered we enjoyed a great week together which included 2 nights out on the boat visiting Karnyios and Porto Spilla respectively for beach afternoons and evening dinners. It was indeed hot and Martha particularly sported a worrying heat rash most of the time, so everyone was working hard to keep her cool. Their apartment pool was a huge asset, not to mention the AC, and whilst on the boat we ran fans, facilitated essential swimming and found as much breeze as possible, although light winds limited the sailing we did. Each evening we dined together and had great fun playing a host of hilarious games, the most memorable being consequences and an attempt to get hypnotized!
It was a great joy to share time with them all, on and off the boat so we felt quite bereft when their week was up and a coach shipped them off to the airport.
We lingered for a few days to let some cloudy weather pass by before heading north to Preveza before setting off further north to Corfu. The intense heat was beginning to give way to a series of depressions and fierce thunderstorms, so we had to time our sails carefully and plan our destinations accordingly.
Deja Vu 
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